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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED O. MOSS, OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,320, dated March21, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED CHARLES Moss, of Allentown, in the county ofLehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedCigar-Lighter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to. provide a new and improvedcigar-lighter for attachment to the ends of cigars for lighting thesame.

The invention consists of an inflammable wafer attached to a cross whosewings are provided at their outer ends with adhesive matter for securingit to the cigar, the said water being attached to the cross while in amolten state, as hereinafter described.

In using my invention the inflammable wafer is placed against the end ofthe cigarwith The wings are then. bent over upon the sides of the cigar,to which they are secured bygum orother suitable adhesive substance. Byrubbing the igniting compound against any suitable surface the compoundis ignited and the cigar lighted.

I am aware that cigar-lighting fuses of various kinds have been attachedto cigars, and I therefore do not claim broadly the invention of suchdevices. My il'nprovement has several advantages over all previousdevices of this nature, some of which, together with the construction, Iwill now proceed to describe.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective viewof acigar provided with my improvedcigar-lighter. .Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improved cigar-lighter. Fig.3 is an end edge view of the same. Fig; 4 is a plan iew of one of theblanks of the cigar-lighter.

A represents an inflammable wafer, made of the igniting compoundordinarily used on friction-matches. To the wafer A, I attach wings 0,made of paper, and composed by cutting out a cross of paper, as shown atD, Fig. 4. The wings are cemented to the wafer Aby Application filedJanuary 5, 1882. (No model.)

placing the wafer, when in a molten state, in the center of the cross D,and as soon as the material composing the wafer is cooled the wings willbe found to be firmly cemented to the wafer. The wafer is to be composedof any suitable inflammable mass which will ignite when rubbed or heatedby sufficient frictionfor. instance, of the mass of which matchhead aremade. The inflammable wafer is placed against the end of the cigar E,and the wings O are bent over on the sides of the cigar, and are securedon the cigar by means of gum or'some other suitable adhesive mate- 6orial applied on the wings, thereby holding the inflammable wafer firmlyon the end of the ciN gar. By rubbing that end of the cigar providedwith the wafer over any suitable surface the friction produced willcause ignition of the wafer, which forms a coal of fire and ignites thecigar. No deleterious gases aredrawn into the cigar, and no parts of thewafer which might give the-cigar a bad taste remain on the cigar.Furthermore, theend ofthe cigar is not cracked or broken by fastening myimproved cigar-lighter, but, on the contrary, itis strengthened and heldtogether by the wings O.

This lighter can be attached to the cigar very easily and rapidly, andis readily and cheaply made.

Having thus described my invention,Icl-aim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. An improved cigar-lighter, consisting of a crosshaving an inflammable wafer attached to its center and adapted to besecured to acigar by having its wings bent over on the sides of cgar andconnected thereto, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A cigar-lighter consisting of the central inflammable wafer, A, andradial wings 0, provided with adhesive matterat their outcrends, thesaid wings being centered -to the wafer while in a molten state,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ALFRED O. MOSS.

Witnesses:

O. SEDGWIGK, J. H. SCARBOROUGH.

